[Insight-developers] [slicer-devel] Strawman: ITK 3 tag to use with slicer

[Bill Lorensen]

Do not most slicer developers build their own version of ITK? Or do
they use a system ITK?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Stephen Aylward
<stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using superbuild to apply patches doesn't help create a version of ITK
> that can be used with the Debian package of Slicer.
>
> Perhaps the version of ITK being used with Slicer should become ITK
> v3.21 instead of cherrypicking from it.   I believe what your are
> proposing would only provide one feature difference between ITK3.20
> and 3.21, i.e., the ability to compile on gcc4.6 - doesn't seem like a
> good reason for a whole new release.   By not including the other
> patches that the Slicer folks are providing we loose the chance to
> build itk with 64bits and fix other bugs.
>
> s
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have been discussing multiple issues in this thread. I propose the
>> following strawman (my knowledge of all of the different config
>> possibilities is limited):
>>
>> 1) ITK 3.20, should build with gcc4.6. Apparently Debian is using gcc4.6.
>>    We should apply the minimum patches to ITK 3.20 to compile with
>> 4.6. These seem to be a small number of changes.
>>
>> 2) The specialised patches to ITK 3.20 (e.g. 64 bit support) required
>> for Slicer3/4 can be delivered via the Slicer3/4 superbuild mechanism.
>>
>> 3) Slicer4 patches to ITKv4 should follow the procedures to add
>> changes to ITK:
>> http://itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/New_Code_Contribution_Process . The
>> goal will be to have Slicer4 build/test with ITKv4.
>>
>> Slicer is an important ITK customer and the Slicer/ITK community has
>> large overlap and funding.
>>
>> Let's refine these topics and come to consensus.
>>
>> Bill
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